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W. T. OHRISTY & J. W. KOHN.

PILLOW SHAM HOLDER.

No. 336,509. Patented Feb. 16, 1886.

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WILLIAM T. OHRISTY AND JACOB \VILLIAM KOHN, OF NE\VARK, N. J.

PlLLOW-SHAM HOLDER.

SPECIPICATIONforming part of Letters Patent No. 336,509, dated February 16,1886.

Application filed May H, 1885. Serial No. 165,446. (No model.) I

-M. To all whom it may concern: holding-frame at an upright or raised position;

Be it known that we, WILLIAM T. CHRISTY and Figs. 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 illustrate details, and JACOB WILLIAM KOHN, citizens of the which will be duly explained. 55 United States, residing at Newark, in the In said drawings, a indicates a portion of a 5 county of Essex and State of New Jersey, bedstead; b, brackets secured thereon by have invented certain new and useful Imscrews c, or by other means, one or both of prvements in Pillow-Sham Holders; and we which said brackets is provided with a lug, d, do hereby declare the following to be a full, around which the back or lower end of a wire 50 clear, and exact description of the invention, spring for holding frame in an upright posiio such as will enable others skilled in the art tion is secured, and having lugs c 6, between to which it appertains to make and use the which and the lug (Z the said spring is caughx same, reference being had to the accompanying and held longitudinally along the inner face drawings, and to lettersof reference marked of the bracket in position to engage the bear- 65 thereon, which form a partof this specificaing it of the turning-rod of the frame, two of I tion. said lugs bearing on one side of the spring,and The object of this invention is to reduce the the other on the other side of said spring at a cost of construction and to provide a device point approximately midway between the better adapted, as a whole, than other shalnfirst two. The said brackets extend upwardly 7o holders now in use having a general resemand outwardly from the bedstead, and at the blance to ours, for the uses to which it is to be extremities thereof thesame are provided applied. The more particular or specific obwith pivotal bearings ff for the frame or the jects are to render the adjustment of the turncastings i 1; thereof. The said frame is coming-rod sections, whereby they are made to posed of adjustable sections having wire loops 75 form a rod suited to any width of bed, more secured thereon in any suitable manner, said easy and convenient, and, when adjusted, to loops heing held together by bands m, and secure a rod devoid of bulky shoulders formed providing the support for the pillow-sham. by the overlapping ends; to prevent the said Said castings are provided at one end with sections from slip iiing, and thus falling from suitable sockets, screws, or other means 80 the brackets; to secure increased leverage, whereby the same may be secured to the rod whereby the spring, which acts as a-detent for so as to project laterally or at right angles to the turning-rod, has increased power and eonsaid rod, as indicated in Figs. 2 and 3. At trol over said rod; to more effectually conceal the opposite ends they are-or at least one of said spring from view, to enable it to be them is-provided with an eccentric bearing 81, arranged in its bearings more quickly and to engage the bracket-spring, and at the center be held therein more securely, and to obviate of said castings are provided with pivotal the noise heretofore occasioned by the spring bearings to receive or cooperate with those of striking against the end casting of the turnthe brackets. ing-rod after being raised by a cam projection By this construction and arrangement of the 0 or when it passes into a holding relation with casting we are enabled to obtain an increased 0 a notched casting. leverage, whereby the spring has increased The invention consists in the arrangements control over the frame. The said bracketand combinations of parts, substantially as spring Zis arranged, as before intimated, lonwill be hereinafter set forth, and finally eingitudinally along the inner face ofthe bracket, 5 bodied in the clauses of the claim. as in Figs. 2 and 3, where it lies concealed 5 Referring to the accompanying drawings, from casual observation. The frame being in which like letters indicate corresponding turned to an upright position, as indicated in parts in each of the several figures, Figure 1 Figs. 2 and 3, the spring bears outwardly is an elevation of the sham-holder secured to against the eccentric bearing, and thus holds 100 a bedstead. Fig. 2 is an enlarged section the wire portions of the frame back against taken through line 00. Fig. 3 is a similar secthe headboard of the bed. The turning-rodg tion showing a slight modification in the 0011- is made in sections, whereby the same may be Btruction of the mechanism for holding the lengthened or contracted to suit the bed. The

said sections of the turning-rod are at their overlapping ends beveled or reduced in thickness, as indicated in Figs. 5 and 6, whereby bulky and unsightly shoulders are avoided. In connection with these beveled and overlapping ends we employ ferrules or bands m m, which are free to slide on the sections and over the beveled ends thereof, so that after adjusting the overlapping sections to form the rod of desired length said bands may be adjusted over the beveled ends, said bands engaging the beveled surfaces and clamping the parts rigidly together.

To secure the best results, two bands, one to engage each bevel, are reo uired. These serve as abutments, as well as clamps, against which the inclined surfaces of the sections bear, so that longitudinal movement of theparts is prevented. The rod gis provided with books 19, by means of which the sham may be readily attached to the rod.

Having thus described the invention,.what we claim as new is l 1. In a pillowsham holder, the combination of a bracket, as b, having bearing-lugs formed on the face thereof, a spring arranged between said lugs, two of said lugs bearing against one side of the spring and athird bearing on the other side at a point between said two, and a frame having a turning-rod arranged in said bracket and provided with a bearing to engage said spring, substantially as described.

2. In a pillow-sham holder, the combination, with a bracket having a spring thereon, and a turning-rod, of a casting, i, projecting laterally from said turning-rod, having at about the center a pivotal bearing to engage a cooperating bearing of the bracket and at its outer end having a laterally -pro 'ecting bearing, h, to engage the spring, substantially as set forth.

3. In a pillow-sham holder, the casting 1', having at one end a socket or seat at which the said casting is secured to the turning-rod so as to project at right angles thereto, and having a central pivotal bearing to cooperate with one on the bracket, and at the other end having a lateral projection or bearing, h, to engage the spring on said bracket, substantially as set forth.

4. In a pillow-sham holder, the combination, with suitable brackets, of a turning-rod having beveled overlapping sections, and bands on 172, free to move on said sections and to abut againstthe inclined surfaces, to clamp the sections rigidly together and form a rod of any desired length,substantially as setforth.

5. In a pillowsham holder, the combination of brackets, a turning-rod of overlapping sections having pivotal castings at their outer ends, and having beveled overlapping ends, and bands at m,which engage the beveled surfaces and clamp said sections together, substantially as and for the purposes set forth..

In testimony that we claim the foregoing we have hereunto set our hands this 21st day of April, 1885.

WILLIAM T. OHRISTY. JACOB WILLIAM KOHN.

Witnesses:

CHARLES H. PELL, OSCAR A. MIonEL.

Correction in Letters Patent No.- 336,509.

It is hereby certified that Letters Patent No. 336,509, granted February 16, 1886, upon the application of William T. Christy and Jacob William Kohn, of Newark, New Jersey, for an improvement in Pillow-Sham Holders, was erroneously issued to the inventors as owners of said patent; that said Letters Patent should have been issued to Edwin F. Hyatt, of Newark, New Jersey, said Hyatt being assignee of the entire interest; and that the proper corrections have been made in the files and records of the case in the Patent Offioe and should be read in the Letters Patent that the same may conform thereto.

Signed, oountersigned, and sealed this 16th day of March, A. D. 1886.

[SEAL] H L. MULDBOW,

Acting Secretary of the Interior.

Gountersigned M. V. 1\[ONTGOMEBY,

Commissioner of Patents. 

